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BigPicture and Tempo Planner are both planning apps for Jira, but they differ more than one may imagine. Tempo Planner is great for "preventing resources from being wasted", while BigPicture will help you "get a complex project done". Tempo Planner keeps its eye on "squeezing" teams while BigPicture delivers... yes,... read more →

It is widely known that in Agile your team gathers every two weeks (typically) to set goals for the next iteration. It is less known, however, how to estimate tasks from the backlog in story points and how to use velocity to plan the appropriate amount of work for following iterations.... read more →

Are you into project management in Jira? Both BigPicture and Portfolio for Jira are capable of delivering a panorama, or big picture, of your organization. They are both powerful, agile and suitable for organizations of various sizes. They are, however, noticeably different and many businesses find one of the apps more useful than the other. So let's compare... read more →

"Jira Scrum" has been increasingly popular on the Internet for the last 10 years (see Google Trends). So let's check what plain Jira can and cannot do in terms of Scrum methodology. On the occasion we'll show how people confuse Agile and Scrum. Jira is a modern piece of software. It must support Scrum by default, mustn't it? Not so true.... read more →

Since "tutorial" implies self-learning, we gathered some of our BigPicture video tutorials in this post. Keep in mind, however, that numerous organizations ordered an on-line or on-site BigPicture training... read more →

On June 4th @SoftPlant became @SoftwarePlant on Twitter. Whereas you could swap Twitter usernames within minutes, there are things to consider and here they are: Is longer @SoftwarePlant actually better than @SoftPlant? It depends. Our new @SoftwarePlant... read more →

Google "Trello Gantt chart" and you'll see quite a number of solutions. Since they all appear attractive we take a closer look at them. Very few of them are Power-Ups and the majority are standalone apps. Some of them are free of charge, whereas the rest of them cost money, at least after their trial periods. Interestingly, only one Gantt chart for Trello is both... read more →

What issues do medium & large businesses encounter in Jira, especially when they grow? Let's look at the case of Wirecard, a pretty mature German company, but still growing. We've recently trained their project management team in Jira & BigPicture and we'd like to share a collection of their hacks and tweaks. [caption id="attachment_39957" align="alignnone"... read more →

Is there a valid reason why project managers google "Atlassian project management tools" whereas they could just search "Jira"? We think there is. While Jira is often considered an 'essential' or 'central' tool for any project manager, most organizations will want to include two more within their toolbox, namely Confluence and... read more →

The good news is that 'Program' and 'Project' means the same for 80% of Jira users. However, since these separate terms exist, let's look closer at how they differ from each other for the remaining 20 per cent of the project management world. Let's start with the rationale behind three different terms being in... read more →